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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:03:57 PM EDT
Doesn't help that my kids blow the puffballs all over the yard.. They think my misery is funny How do I kill ? |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:04:51 PM EDT
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use a selective herbicide that will kill it and nothing else.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:04:56 PM EDT
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They are bad this year.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:05:24 PM EDT
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Ignore them? Mow more frequently?
In for real answers. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:05:36 PM EDT
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Agent Orange should do the trick |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:06:02 PM EDT
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2-4-D
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:06:07 PM EDT
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To be honest herbicides do not work perfectly but if timed right work well. If you want them gone get on your hands and knees and pull them and keep pulling them.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:06:35 PM EDT
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use a selective herbicide that will kill it and nothing else. 2,4-D product Trimec, Weedmaster, etc. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:07:06 PM EDT
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I paid someone.Selective herbacide and pre-emergent then anytime any weed sticks its head up i pull it by hand.
After 2 years of that my yard is beautiful. it takes a while for all the weeds to die and the fescue to thrive. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:07:26 PM EDT
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Weed B Gon works.
There are professional level chemicals as well. Spray with a fury as soon as you see leaves or flowers. Be always on the alert, walk the lawn. With that many it will take repeated applications. I spray the perimeter of my neighbor's yards too because the wind carries those fluffies. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:08:21 PM EDT
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I had good luck putting down weed and feed 2 weeks ago, and then doing it again today.
Granted, both applications happened when my non-lawn-mowing neighbor was at work, and surprisingly, no dandelions in his yard anymore, either. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:10:43 PM EDT
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9mm
But seriously I'm just tagging this thread. I swear loudly at them and mow my yard twice a week, it doesn't help. 
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:13:51 PM EDT
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Have kids pull them and make wine?
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:14:28 PM EDT
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2-4-D |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:16:44 PM EDT
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Pick all the flowers and make wine.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:18:12 PM EDT
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2-4-D This was my answer. If you want to start completely over, add some roundup to the mix. If you have an applicator's permit, you could use grazon. Not only would it take out your broadleaf weeds, it would also prohibit the weed seeds from germinating. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:18:15 PM EDT
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2,4-D product Trimec, Weedmaster, etc. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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use a selective herbicide that will kill it and nothing else. 2,4-D product Trimec, Weedmaster, etc. Spectracide, Weed-B-gone or anything but Roundup. I have had good success with Spectracide in concentrated form since I lost my hook up for straight 2-4-D. I apply it to the yard in a Ortho Dial-N-Spray at the recommended rate twice a year and I have no weed problems, living across the street from over a hundred acres of pasture. Round up is shit. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:28:32 PM EDT
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2-4-D Brand name I use is Amine 400. It kills them shits but not the grass. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:30:18 PM EDT
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Eat your enemy.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:32:32 PM EDT
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Have kids pull them and make wine? dandelion roots & leaves are edible |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:32:59 PM EDT
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Eat your enemy. I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. No shit you can actually eat this stuff.. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:37:43 PM EDT
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Dandelions are actually more useful than the grass you spread poison on. They are medicinal and can be eaten on salad even. Lawns are the worst waste of money known to modern man. They were invented to sell fertilizer, seed and sell Roundup poison that gets into the water system and causes cancer. Get a goat if you don't like them. WebMD
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:39:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:41:38 PM EDT
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Looks like it needs mowed.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:44:00 PM EDT
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I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. No shit you can actually eat this stuff.. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Eat your enemy. I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. No shit you can actually eat this stuff.. They're pretty nutritious. Dandelion nettle salad. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:45:14 PM EDT
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Have you tried "yellow thing killer"?
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:45:57 PM EDT
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Trimec 992 at 2.5oz per gallon will fix them up.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:46:55 PM EDT
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 Start pulln'  |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:48:27 PM EDT
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Look upon them as your secret SHTF garden.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 5:54:52 PM EDT
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To be honest herbicides do not work perfectly but if timed right work well. If you want them gone get on your hands and knees and pull them and keep pulling them. Kids were mentioned. Have them pull them up. Pay a bounty if you have to. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:10:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryBack in the 70's Mom would send us out in the yard with one of those and we'd pop a bucket full out of the ground. Doesn't sound like much fun now though. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:11:46 PM EDT
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DDT
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:13:27 PM EDT
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I just use a long, very wide flat head screwdriver. Get it down just below the bulb and pluck it up.
You'll have to do it a lot since it got out of control, but quite frankly it's the best, fastest way. I've seen the tool others have posted, but a flat screwdriver you already have and works the exact same. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:14:29 PM EDT
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I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Eat your enemy. I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. You're not familiar with sci-fi by the late Ray Bradbury, eh? |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:14:32 PM EDT
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Unbolt the slide?
oh you mean those flower looking things that are annoying 
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:16:24 PM EDT
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I actually go out every night and pull them with a weed puller. It's good exercise and keeps the yard looking good. It's not fun though. And I get a blister on my hand every year because I have naturally soft hands.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:17:44 PM EDT
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2-4-D 2,4-D is also organic
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:21:31 PM EDT
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I spent about 20 hours total pulling them out with a weeding tool. Maybe a half acre of the yard is done. My main yard is mostly clear of them now. 1hour a week maintenance to catch the stragglers and low lying stealth ones.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:22:14 PM EDT
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I think the better question would be.......Why would you want to ?
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:23:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:24:53 PM EDT
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At that point, I would rip up all the grass and start over. That would drive me nuts.
I hate those things with a passion. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:26:18 PM EDT
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http://i68.tinypic.com/9kcsc6.jpg Doesn't help that my kids blow the puffballs all over the yard.. They think my misery is funny How do I kill ? Why ? That is a honey bee friendly yard 
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:29:43 PM EDT
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I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. No shit you can actually eat this stuff.. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Eat your enemy. I thought the guy above you was joking about making wine. No shit you can actually eat this stuff.. I Never joke about Alcohol......
Ingredients
21 d 1 h 10 m 32 servings 1 quart yellow dandelion blossoms, well rinsed 1 gallon boiling water 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast 8 cups white sugar 1 orange, sliced 1 lemon slice Add all ingredients to list Directions Prep 1 h Cook 10 m Ready In 21 d 1 h 10 m Place dandelion blossoms in the boiling water, and allow to stand for 4 minutes. Remove and discard the blossoms, and let the water cool to 90 degrees F (32 degrees C). Stir in the yeast, sugar, orange slices, and lemon slice; pour into a plastic fermentor, and attach a fermentation lock. Let the wine ferment in a cool area until the bubbles stop, 10 to 14 days. Siphon the wine off of the lees, and strain through cheesecloth before bottling in quart-sized, sterilized canning jars with lids and rings. Age the wine at least a week for best flavor. ETA: pick the green stuff off of the flowers, they make it bitter |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:29:59 PM EDT
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Put a penny a flower bounty on them.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:31:02 PM EDT
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at that point, re sod. that's a level 5 infrestation. Nuke it from orbit
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:31:40 PM EDT
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Once you keep mowing them, come June they will be never pop backup, but you have to mow them like once a week.
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:32:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Back in the 70's Mom would send us out in the yard with one of those and we'd pop a bucket full out of the ground. Doesn't sound like much fun now though. Quote HistoryQuoted: Back in the 70's Mom would send us out in the yard with one of those and we'd pop a bucket full out of the ground. Doesn't sound like much fun now though. I think the allure was getting to use a stabby tool that was obviously dangerous to do grown up work. As an adult I'd rather hang out with my friends and do hoodrat stuff. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:32:52 PM EDT
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2 4 d in a pump sprayer then follow up with preen for your yard
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:49:37 PM EDT
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Have kids pull them and make wine? Make hay when the sun shines, and feed it all winter, as my grandfather would say. Honestly though, the presence of dandelions is a sign of soil compaction, they're a tap rooted plant, and replacing it with a similar plant to break up your soil or find ways to loosen up the soil will make it so that they don't come back. |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:51:50 PM EDT
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Have kids pull them and make wine? Or salad, needs to be before the flowers set IIRC |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:55:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think the better question would be.......Why would you want to ? This is the answer. Monoculture non-native turf grass is bad for you and your family. The dandelions and the bees that use them are good for you and your family. Too many? Pull some. No chemicals. |
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